by Tim Adams

One of the pleasures of lunch with Stanley Tucci is that it gives me the excuse, beforehand, to rewatch his film Big Night, easily the best movie ever made about running a restaurant.

It's 20 years since Tucci co-wrote (with his cousin), co-directed and starred in his homage to the Italian immigrant experience in New York but the battle lines - between the two brothers, Primo and Secondo, purist chef and drowning maitre d' at their restaurant Paradise - remain as fresh as ever.

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